Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:23:
- Noongar: “A man asked him, ‘Lord, a few people only will be saved, will they?’ Jesus answered him,” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “A person asked him: ‘Lord, will only a few people receive eternal life/goodness of life until forever?’ Yesus said saying to the people:” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “There was one person asking him, ‘Sir, will few people be saved?’ Isa answered and said to him, ‘The ruling of God is figuratively like a house with a narrow door.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There was someone who asked him, ‘Chief, are there just a few people who will be given eternal life?’ And Jesus answered,” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Someone questioned him, ‘Sir, will only a few be saved?’ Jesus answered and said,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Once someone questioned him, saying, ‘What’s that, Lord, won’t there be many who will be saved from that punishment being referred to?’ Jesus replied, saying,” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:24:
- Noongar: “‘You must always do everything which you can do to go in the narrow door. So truly, many people will want to go in the narrow door, but they will not be able to go in.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘Receiving goodness of life may be compared to people who enter through a narrow gate. Make-effort/haste to enter through that narrow gate. Because many will search for their way to enter, but they will no longer be able to enter.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Really persevere/strive to enter by the narrow door. For I tell you that many will try to enter but they will not be able to enter.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “‘Do everything you can so that you might enter in the narrow doorway of the house which is life without end, because I say to you that there are many people who would really like to enter in there, but they cannot enter in.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Put-forth your effort (lit. ability) to enter the narrow doorway to heaven while you still have opportunity. Because starting-from when the house owner closes-the-door, many will try to enter but they won’t be able. Even though they knock saying, ‘Lord, please open,’ he will say in reply, ‘I don’t know you and where you are from.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘You (pl.) are really to persevere to enter at the narrow gate. For what I will say to you is true that the day will come when many will then force who want to enter the kingdom of God, but they won’t be able to enter because they are too late.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:25:
- Noongar: “The master of the house will rise and shut the door. Then when you stand outside and start knocking and calling, ‘Master, open the door for us!’ he will say to you, ‘I don’t know you. Where do you come from?'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Because their time will come, the houseowner will stand, going to shut the door. If for example you are still standing outside at that time, you ask for the door to be opened, you say: ‘Lord, please open for us (excl.)!’ ‘He will answer you: ‘I do not know you, or where you are from.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When the owner of the house has already stood up and locked the door then you will be just outside knocking on the door and calling, ‘O, Sir, open for us (excl.).’ Then he will answer saying, ‘I don’t know where you are from.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because the owner of the house, he will shut that door. And if you are still on the outside, you will be calling, saying, ‘Open the door for us.’ But the only answer that the owner of the house will give you is, ‘I don’t know who you are or where you come from.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Put-forth your effort (lit. ability) to enter the narrow doorway to heaven while you still have opportunity. Because starting-from when the house owner closes-the-door, many will try to enter but they won’t be able. Even though they knock saying, ‘Lord, please open,’ he will say in reply, ‘I don’t know you and where you are from.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For it’s like the householder will close the door. Well, you will just be left standing there outside, pleading to be let in, saying, ‘Lord, please do let us in.’ His reply to you will be, ‘I don’t recognize/know you, who you are.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:26:
- Noongar: “Then you will reply, ‘We ate and drank with you; you taught in our town!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘You will say to him: ‘Ei’! We have eaten and drunk with you (sing.), Lord! You (sing.) have taught in our (excl.) town!'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then you will say, ‘Do you not remember? Before we ate together and you preached there in our (excl.) town.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then you will answer, ‘Long ago we ate and we drank with you, and you taught in our town!'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then they will say, ‘And there indeed it was we (excl.) who ate-with and drank-with you (sing.). You (sing.) moreover taught in our (excl.) town!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “You will reply saying, ‘Well, we were indeed your companions eating and drinking and you-remember you even taught in our town.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:27:
- Noongar: “But then he will say, ‘I don’t know you. I do not know that place, where you come from. Go away, all you evil people!'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘He will say to you: ‘I do not know you or where you are from. Go away from here, you who all have evil behavior.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But he will say to you, ‘I tell you, I really do not know where you are from. Go away from me, all you who do bad.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he will answer you, ‘I really don’t know who you are or where you come from. As for you whose customs are evil, get away from here.”” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But he will again say, ‘I emphatically don’t know you and where you are from. Get-away-from there (near listener), all of you who do evil!'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “The Lord will reply, saying, ‘I really don’t acknowledge you as my companions. Go far away from me, all of you doers of evil!'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:28:
- Noongar: “‘You will cry and bite your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets sitting there in the Kingdom of God but you are thrown out.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “‘At that time, you will cry and suffer, because you see Abraham, Ishak and Yakub with all the prophets, sitting happily in the Kingdom of God, whereas you are shut on the outside.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then you will wail there and you will gnash your teeth when you see there inside your forefathers Prophet Ibrahim and Isahak and Yakub and all the prophets but you are just outside.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And then,’ said Jesus, ‘You will wail loudly and you will grind your teeth because you feel so badly, because you’ve not been included among those whom God will rule over. And inside you will see your ancestor long ago, Abraham, and his son Isaac, and his grandchild Jacob, and also all of the prophets of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When they see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets who have been included in the ruling of God, they will excessively cry-bitterly while-simultaneously they will gnash-their -teeth in their anger, because as for them, they will be thrown-away.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s certain that you will cry and your teeth will grind when you see that there in the kingdom of God are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets, but as for you, you will be driven-out/away for you really won’t be allowed to enter.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:29:
- Noongar: “‘People will come from everywhere – east and west, north and south – and sit eating and drinking in the Kingdom of God.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “There will also be many people who are not Yahudi people who become the people of God in his Kingdom. They will come from the east and from the west and from all around the world, all sitting happily/being-happy and attending the feast in the Kingdom of God.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And there will be people arriving from the four corners of the earth gathering there and they will sit there feasting in the (place/sphere of) ruling of God.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there will also be there many people who are not Jews, who come from the four directions here on the earth, and they will be able to sit down at the feast of all of those whom God rules over.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But there will be many however who will be included in joining-to-eat in the ruling-place of God who will be from the coming-out and the going-away of the sun and the north and the south.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “On that day many will come who are not Judio, coming from whichever place, toward the east and west, the north and south, who will join in the celebration in the kingdom of God.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:30:
- Noongar: “Then they who are last today, they will be first, and they who are first today, they will be last.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “At the end/finally, many people whose lives are small [i.e., humble] will have big lives [i.e., be important] in the future. And many people whose lives are big at this time will have small lives in the future.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “And look, there are some people who are last/behind now who will be ahead in the future, and there are some people who are ahead now who will be last/behind in the future.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “There are now some people whom you suppose mistakenly, who will be last of all because they are not fellow Jews. But when that day arrives, they will be first of all those whom God rules over. There are also some people today whom you suppose will be first of all, but then when that day arrives, they will be the ones who will be last of all.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “For there are those today who are low who will be made-high, and there are also those today who are high who will be made-low.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, think about this. There are people who, you thought-mistakenly, would be first in the kingdom of God because for a long time now they have known about him. Whereas the truth is, they will be too late, for they don’t want to believe-in/obey me. And there are others who, you thought-mistakenly, will be too late, for they have no awareness yet about God. Whereas the truth is, those others will get to be first, because when they have heard, they will believe-in/obey me.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)